Weblogs
Source: InfoWorld Debate flares over Weblog standards
From the article, Despite the undisputed popularity and proven utility of RSS, a new standard is emerging in an attempt to lay the foundations for the Weblog's future. Originally dubbed Echo and now rechristened as Atom, the effort is described as a grassroots, vendor-neutral push to address some of the limitations of RSS. Rather than adding to the existing RSS specification, development on these issues has splintered off into a separate effort due to disagreement among community members as to the purpose and direction of RSS. The idea is to build on the foundation of RSS, according to Anil Dash , vice president of business development at Six Apart, a San Francisco-based Weblog vendor. "The reason there is a need for something else [is that] there are new types of data and richer and more complex connections we are trying to do that RSS is not meant to do," Dash said. Critics charge that the multiple versions of RSS, the number of which ranges between two and five depending on whom you talk to, are causing confusion and are hindering interoperability. "To date, people [involved with RSS] have failed to converge on one version and make the confusion go away," Antarctica's Bray said.
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